This letter was sent in response to David North’s review of Witnesses to Permanent Revolution: the Documentary Record, edited and translated by Richard B. Day and Daniel Gaido. (See, “A significant ...

The Permanent Revolution is the intensification of class struggle after the bourgeois state has been blown up by the revolutionary proletariat. This phenomenon is national and international, with it ...

“The French are better at fighting revolutions than making reforms,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in his notes in 1848. As a government deputy, he would walk through revolutionary Paris wrapped in his ...

It revisits the concept of permanent revolution not as a slogan of inevitable rupture, but as a way of thinking about systems that can no longer resolve the crises they generate, before turning to ...

What must the proletariat do to break its chains, to conquer its freedom once and for all, to transform capitalist society, based on the profit of a minority, that is, of the bourgeoisie and its state ...

How did liberal democracy arise from illiberal soil? In other words, how did Europe in the 16th century, when religious adherence was enforced and heretics were persecuted, produce a world in which ...

Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky role as political revolutionaries has long been celebrated. Yet their status as intellectual revolutionaries has been obscured through the decades by distance from ...

THE MARXISM that prevailed in the socialist movement in the early part of the 20th century was based on the idea that history moved in defined stages. No new social formation, it was believed, could ...

A month after the fall of dictator Hosni Mubarak, the massive movement that showed its power by overthrowing him faces new challenges, as the ruling class and its imperialist allies attempt to save ...

I teach my classes at Seton Hall University in a seminar room known as the Oesterreicher Suite, in which a photograph of Monsignor John M. Oesterreicher looks down on the class as it is being held.

Mehring Books is pleased to announce that for a limited time it will continue taking advance orders for the new paperback edition of Witnesses to Permanent Revolution at the special discounted price ...